GENUINE OR SCAM?

I have been receiving a lot of junk emails and warning emails from my friends recently. It seems that there is a syndicate around in Malaysia trying to get personal particulars of individuals. They could be master minding some sort of money cheating scheme. No matter what happened, DO NOT ANSWER to their queries without confirming, contacting and consulting the right authorities (3 C’s).

This is just an awareness program.

CASE 1:

Dear family members and friends

I am writing this e-mail to warn all of you. This is what happen to me on 18th may 2007 at 10.00am. The phone rang and i answered, a voice message stated that the call is from the Malaysian High Court mentioning that I have a case to attend at the KL High Court. Rather curious of what sort of case i have, so i press 9 to talk to the operator.

The operator speaks very “slow English” if you know what i mean. She insisted that i must give her my name and ic no. in order for her to check what sort of case i have. I hold on for a few seconds and she ask me if that is really my ic no. I confirmed and she also confirmed that i have a case to attend. She says that she will faxed the document over to Bukit Aman Police station and the officer will call me in 3 minutes.

So i hung up, through enough i received the call less than 2 minutes. He announced himself as Yeoh Long Wah from Bukit Aman police station. He ask me a lot of questions and say the criminal have use my ic detail to open bank account in Maybank and Public Bank in Negeri Sembilan.

He then ask me whether i have a bank account in Maybank and Public Bank. I told him that i have a Public Bank a/c. He says that i have to answer his questions honestly so that he can help me with my case. The questions he ask like have you lost yr ic before, did you hand over yr ic to anybody for documentation and how much money u have in yr a/c.

I told him i cannot reveal the amount in my account and that i will meet him in Bukit Aman police station. He says fine and meet him before 4pm and gave me the phone no 03-77826222.

I rang my lawyer and ask for advice. She asked me to fix the appointment with the so call police on Sat or Monday since today is Friday and mosque day. I called the no 77826222 and the police answer telling me that this is not Bukit Aman police station but police station in Old Klang Road. I told the police the problem and he told me to launch a police report in Subang Jaya police station because they have been receiving a lot of these calls from people.

I went to Public Bank to freeze all my a/c for the time being. I am sharing all these with you so that you will not go through the trauma i have gone through

From
KYC 18/5/07

CASE 2:

Dear Winner,

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of £1,000,000.00 (British Pounds) held on the 8th of June 2007 in London Uk. The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email selection system (ess) from a database of over 250,000 email addresses drawn from which you were selected.

The Uk National Lottery is approved by the British Gamling Board. To begin the processing of your prize you are to contact our fiduciary claims department for more infomation as regards the procedures to claim your prize.

Email:desmond.fiduciaryclaimsdept@yahoo.co.uk

Please you are advice to contact him by sending him with the underlisted informations:

1.Name
2.Address
3.Nationality
4.Age
5.Occupation
6.Sex
7.Marita Status
8.Phone
9.Fax.

Sincerely,
Mr. Williams Desmond
(Zonal Coordinator)
9/6/07

Note:

1. Why address to the winner when no one will even provide an email address to the lottery ticket seller?
2. Professional bodies will spell check their emails before they sent out any letter. Gamling or Gambling?
3. Why use fiduciacy such a complicated word?
4. Should the department’s name be highlighted in upper lower case?
5. Bad English Grammar.